The face-eating insects surged towards Ethan and the others like a tide, and the dense carapace merged into a black river in the gradually narrowing underground tunnel.

The face-eaters were still a hundred meters away from them, and at their speed, it was estimated that they would be killed in more than ten seconds.

"Adeline!" Ethan looked at the Ant.

Adeline nodded, and manipulated the Ant Crane to dig out large chunks of dirt from the walls of the caves on both sides, while the rest of the combatants caught the clods and piled them up into improvised earthen walls.

The earthen wall slightly closed the walls of the cave on either side, revealing only a gap that was guarded by Lawrence. Seeing that the insect tide was approaching, everyone put on a posture and prepared to meet the enemy.

The black insect tide surged in, slapping on Laws's steel shield like a wave, and the face-eaters couldn't wait to step on their companions' bodies and quickly rose to the height of the shield like arhats, and their stumbling insect feet clasped the armor on the back of Clarence's neck and climbed down.

The juggler trait recovered after a few dozen seconds of leaving the battle, and at this moment, as the battle began, Ethan felt the energy in his body that belonged to the juggler's trait merge into his limbs and warm his joints.

Ethan turned sideways, avoiding the face-eaters' hard heads, and sliced through their relatively soft abdomen with his sword.

The insect has a tenacious vitality, and even if it is hit, it will not completely lose its ability to act for a while. But more face-eaters crossed the line, leaving Ethan unhappy to mend the knife.

The other two teammates, Christina and Adeline, picked up the face-eaters that had fallen to the ground, threw them behind them, and made sure they were dead.

In the juggler's seven seconds, Ethan opened and closed as if a killing god had come to the world, strangling dozens of face-eating insects that pounced on him. But Lawrence, who had been in front of him, was almost unable to support it, and the tide of face-eating insects pushed him inward inch by inch, and this was still when he had planted his shield on the ground, so you can imagine how much weight Clorence has been bearing.

Seeing that Lawrence was about to be pushed out of the defensive line, the face-eaters on both sides were also lying on the mound, and gradually had a tendency to overturn the mound.

If this continues, it will inevitably lead to the situation of being submerged by the sea of insects, Ethan immediately made a decision, threw down the long sword, and took out two handleless daggers from his backpack and held them in his hands.

The dagger was the short dagger he had made before, and although it wasn't too sharp, he didn't want to play hard with bugs, just a soft shell that could pierce their abdomen.

Ethan bounced out, leapfrogged over Lawrence, and turned on the quicksand technique to the exclamation of the crowd, leaping into the sea of worms.

The mana flowing in his body emptied, turning into a repulsive force and exploding in all directions.

"Boom!" In the originally crowded sea of insects, the insects turned on their backs in an instant, and the face-eating insects revealed their delicate bellies.

Ethan seized the opportunity, and the two daggers danced wildly, ignoring any rules, and stabbed the insects in the abdomen indiscriminately.

As soon as Ethan jumped into the middle of the sea of insects, the surrounding face-eating insects rushed towards Ethan, and the pressure on Lawrence's side plummeted.

"Ethan!" In the command center, Dora scratched her hair frantically and shouted weakly and frantically.

It's too risky. Although she has many years of on-the-spot combat experience and command experience, she also sees the precariousness of the defense line, but Ethan's behavior of putting herself in the insect tide is tantamount to sending a sheep into the mouth of a tiger, and the slightest carelessness is a catastrophe.

Ethan, who was in the swarm, was so concentrated that he couldn't hear the outside world at all, and only had the white belly of the worm in his eyes, as well as the auxiliary battle picture of the location, number, and weakness of the face-eating insects sketched on the screen.

The dagger in his hand followed the yellow arrows and circles in the picture, stabbed the dagger into the belly of a faceeater, slashed and pulled, and then continued to attack the next faceeater without any delay.

The body is already full of face-eating insects, and the system prompt of the battle information in his ears has not stopped since the start of the battle.

"Kill [Small Ferent Face Eater] Lv.7 and gain 45 XP."

"Kill [Small Ferent Face Eater] Lv.8 and gain 57 experience points."

“……”

Before the power of the quicksand on his body was about to disappear, Ethan fought back to the defense line step by step, and jumped back to the position after pulling away the face-eater on his body.

The mental emptiness caused by the loss of a large amount of mana at one time was not particularly noticeable to Carl when he was fighting, because he could adapt and recover by dodging and retreating. But in such a situation, he could only force himself to cheer up, so that now he felt extremely tired as soon as he relaxed his spirit.

Adeline and Christina stepped forward to fill Ethan's place.

The three members of the fifth group are firing at the moment, without thinking about the energy consumption. On the first type of armor, the light of the armor was activated, and the sound of "whining" pushed Clarence's elbows, providing him with a powerful power.

He lifted his shield on the ground and recaptured the line against the insect tide. The face-eaters that were overturned by Claurens all fell into the clutches of Christina and Adeline.

Christina and Adeline used their exoskeleton arms and the iron palm of the ant machine to tear the face-eaters to pieces.

Lawrence's armor only provided power for a short time, and when the humming subsided, the frenzied insect tide once again squeezed Lawrence's shield backwards.

Ethan took out the potion, and after quickly recovering the vacant mana, he pounced on the swarm again.

A battle between life and death can only allow the insect tide to temporarily shift his attention to himself, and the black sea of insects has spread to the end of the road, and there is no edge in sight. Ethan's killing efficiency is too low, because his dagger is too short, although it is said that it is very suitable for this weapon in a narrow space, but due to the size, Ethan's blow is sometimes not enough to kill a face-eating worm, and even some face-eaters whose abdomen and soft shell have been cut open can continue to gnaw Ethan, and their combat power is not reduced.

This brought a lot of pressure to Ethan, coupled with the mental exhaustion, he would be trapped by a large group of face-eating insects if he was not careful, and the scene became precarious for a while.

After dodging the few faceeaters in front of him, two more faceeaters behind him stubbornly carried the repulsion of the quicksand technique, gnawing at the armor on their feet. Their attacks can already be said to be painless after being weakened, but their harassment will seriously hinder their dodging and maneuvering, causing more face-eating insects to pounce on them in the future.

A jaw clamp clamped his right arm, the weight of dozens of kilograms made it difficult for him to swing his arm, and when he stabbed the short dagger in his left hand into the abdomen of the face-eater, the face-eaters around him swarmed around, and before he could make a dodge move, countless face-eaters pressed against his feet behind him, making him unable to move.

Seeing that Ethan was about to be overwhelmed by the face-eating worm, several people immediately exclaimed: "Brother Esan! ”

Protecting the warriors of the system is our mission!

This idea was constantly instilled in the minds of Christina and others on their first day of combat training. The purpose of their combatants' existence is to protect the system warriors, to become his shield and his sword before the system warriors grow up. If necessary, become his stand-in and die for him.

Adeline lifted the handle for control, and the Ant Machine crouched deeply, making a motion ready to jump. Christina crouched down, the damaged power arm behind her back sizzling and glowing with electricity. Crorence's shield was raised slightly, and a "buzzing" sound sounded in the elbows of the armor, while the assault airbag behind him was activated.